Get the lay of the land — ALWAYS the first call on a codebase. With no arguments: a counts + entry-points overview plus a blind spots note flagging which (language, edge-kind) extractions are partial so you know where to fall back to grep. With seed=<node>: the dense structural map scoped to that node's neighbourhood. With full=true: the whole-repo dense map (the full context dump). Orient first, then find to jump to nodes, impact for blast radius, trace for flows.

Turn any text into the ranked nodes that matter — the on-ramp to the graph. A symbol or keyword returns matching nodes; a pasted stacktrace / failing-test id / diff is resolved to the code it implicates and ranked by relevance. Set expand=true to fan out to the surrounding neighbourhood (spreading activation). Every row carries path:line, so read the top hits directly — no grep.

Blast radius in one call: fan out from one or more nodes to everything they affect (forward) or depend on / are used by (backward), returned as a complete, deduped, Personalized-PageRank-ranked, located closure. Each row carries path:line, the edge via reason it's in scope, and a ⊘ when the engine finds it unreachable from any entry point (likely dead). Structural import/containment fan-out is excluded — no noise. Depth-1 in both directions is a node's immediate neighbours. Pass several comma-separated nodes to assess a whole diff at once.

Follow the code across boundaries. One argument: trace a feature end-to-end — the ordered path from entry through the stack, each hop labelled with its mechanism (call / HTTP / queue / event / data), crossing service boundaries (frontend→backend). Two arguments: the shortest path between two specific nodes, hop by hop. This is where the graph beats reading many files — it knows the cross-stack links grep can't see.

Return the source code for one or more nodes, sliced from their files by the graph's line spans. Use after find/impact to read the exact code without grepping — comma-separate several node names to read the whole ranked set in a single call. Each node is a code block headed by its qname and path:start-end, plus a context: footer with structural facts the source alone doesn't show: HTTP method, cross-stack callers, covering tests, and intent/decision/constraint cells when present.

(Re)build the structural graph with tree-sitter AST parsing across 20 languages, running the cross-stack resolvers (HTTP, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, queues, events, CLI). Incremental by default — only changed files re-parse — so it's cheap to call after edits; set full=true to force a clean reparse. Accepts a local path or a git URL (cloned on demand). Call after a major refactor; routine edits are picked up automatically by the file watcher.